invented

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛntɪd/
  • Audio (GA)(file)
  • Hyphenation: in‧vent‧ed

Adjective

invented (comparative more invented, superlative most invented)

  1. fictional, made up, imaginary.
    The invented alibi didn't stand up long.

Translations
imaginary — see imaginary

Verb

invented

  1. simple past tense and past participle of invent
    • 1995 October 1, Robert Frost, Richard Poirier, Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays (LOA #81) (DE-601)374069697: Library of America series)‎, Library of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 379:
      […] Job's Wife ➤ God who invented earth ? / Job ➤ What , still awake ?
      God ➤ Any originality it showed
      Was of the Devil .He invented Hell ,
      False premises that are the original
      Of all originality , the sin
      That felled the angels , Wolsey should have said, […]
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